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Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand...

Alex Lifeson is a Canadian musician, known as the guitarist for the rock group Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since. For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola,...

This book is a story about Cool Water's humble beginnings and how he was lead to get involved in the music business. Also, he talks about the evolution of hip hop, and how different styles of rap changed throughout the nineties up until the early two thousand which has lead to some of the music we...

A harrowing escape from Africa. A passion for music. A calling for social activism… Growing up, Gentil Misigaro only knew the world as a place of loss, fear, and death. For fifteen years he and his family moved from country to country to escape the violence, but it followed them from their...

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His...

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ist der Titel des legendären AC/DC Albums, mit dem die australische Hardrock-Band 1979 in den USA bis auf Platz 3 der Album-Charts stürmte. Es wurde bis heute 6 Mal mit Platin ausgezeichnet und verkaufte sich allein in den USA über 6 Millionen Mal. Damit ist es nach...

Décryptez l’art de Jérôme Bosch en moins d’une heure !Son nom est le sésame d'un univers à la fois divin et diabolique, peuplé d'êtres hybrides, d'hommes égarés et de créatures infernales. Il s'agit évidemment de Jérôme Bosch, un peintre à la croisée des mondes, à la croisée des...

Too unreal to be a nonfiction book! Bonnie and Klyde plus 2 cats is not the usual Bonnie and Clyde book. This is not a book about robbing banks and murder. “Bonnie and Klyde…” is a humor infused memoir entailing the journey of the author, KO Giuseppe, moving from a good engineering job in Connecticut...

Francisco de Goya Le 25 juin 1786, Francisco de Goya est nommé peintre du roi d'Espagne avant de recevoir une nouvelle commande de cartons de tapisseries pour la salle à manger royale et la chambre à coucher des infantes du Prado. Cette tâche, qui l'occupa jusqu'en...

Octobre 1917. Mata Hari, qui avait ébloui les scènes des plus grandes salles de spectacle d'Europe avec ses danses balinaises, n'est plus qu'un corps sans vie. Elle avait voulu faire sa place auprès des grands de ce monde et passe à la postérité sous les traits d'une traîtresse. Pour espionnage...

Life has not been an easy ride for me. I was not a scholar, but I was a bloody good thief. I’ve done all the bad boy shit you would expect from someone like me but it was not the life I wanted to live. I used to draw to escape from bad places in my head, then I tattooed; it was my...

Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher, one of intellectual leaders of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880.  Influenced by the ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, Kramskoi asserted the high...

Souvenirs littéraires de Jules Troubat, le dernier secrétaire de Sainte-Beuve, certes, mais plus encore car Jules Troubat nous raconte son enfance à Montpellier, parmi une famille républicaine. Napoléon III fera emprisonner son père et ses amis et lui-même...

Jennifer Lawrence is an award winning American actress. Jennifer has two old brothers named Ben and Blaine. When she was still just in her early teens, Jennifer convinced her family to take her to New York City so she could find a talent agent and pursue an acting career full time. She quickly began...